Photo: Mengqiu Chen · CC BY 3.0A flood study covers Electoral Area E, Peace River: 1 on the national inventory, the newest from Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
Burn scars are few around Electoral Area E, Peace River, with 1.5% of the land within 25 km touched by fire since 1986 (0.04% a year). Shaking is about as much of a worry in Electoral Area E, Peace River as in most places, at $0.018 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). In Health Canada’s survey, 10% of homes tested in the area exceeded 200 Bq/m³ (6.6% typical). Hazard risk gives Electoral Area E, Peace River a grade of B; its wildfire band pulls it down.
What stands out about Electoral Area E, Peace River’s hazards
For Electoral Area E, Peace River, from NRCan’s seismic model, Health Canada’s radon survey, the national burned-area record and the flood map inventory.
What Electoral Area E, Peace River faces
Each hazard against its own yardstick; meters run from low to high on that yardstick.
Wildfire
Earthquakes
Radon
Flood study
Electoral Area E, Peace River grades B for hazard risk
For Electoral Area E, Peace River, Risk will be the average of earthquakes and radon, with wildfire added only if it makes the average worse.
Its place: #29 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,434 of 2,589 Canadian towns.
How sure: Earthquake losses are a model’s expectation over many years, not a forecast for any one. The burned-area record misses fires under about 10 ha and most grass and farm fires.
Little of the land around Electoral Area E, Peace River has burned: 2.3% within 5 km, 1.5% within 25 km since 1986
Fires mapped since 1986 around where Electoral Area E, Peace River’s residents live, and the fuel next to their homes.
The land within 25 km of Electoral Area E, Peace River burns at 0.04% a year on average, the low band; the typical Canadian town: 0.000%.
Forest fuel is spread evenly around Electoral Area E, Peace River: 39% within 5 km, 41% within 25 km.
Shares of land within 5 and 25 km of populated blocks: burned at least once in 1986–2025 (CWFIS burned-area composite), forest fuel and grass (fire behaviour fuel types, 2026, 250 m grid).
Burn rate a year, towns in British Columbia · highest of 255
Electoral Area E, Peace River sits mid-table in British Columbia: 74th of 255 towns, at 0.04% a year, well behind Oliver (0.98%).
Each bar: the yearly average share of land within 25 km of a town’s homes that burned, 1986–2025 (CWFIS); the seven highest towns of 2,500 people or more.
The low band takes in 92% of Canada’s 2,610 towns, Electoral Area E, Peace River among them, though its rate is above zero; 7.5% rank higher.
Bands of the yearly burn rate: low under 0.05%, moderate under 0.25%, high under 1%, very high 1% or more; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Canadian Wildland Fire Information System: National Burned Area Composite 1986–2025 and fire behaviour fuel types (2026), Natural Resources Canada. Measured within 25 km and 5 km of each populated dissemination area; past fire, not a forecast.
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy has mapped flooding for Electoral Area E, Peace River (1 study)
Flood studies whose area touches Electoral Area E, Peace River, from NRCan’s inventory, each linked to its owner.
The flood study touching Electoral Area E, Peace River is Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy’s, dated 1985; its own map shows the zones street by street.
| Study | By | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace River BC Alberta Border to Site C Floodplain Mapping | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy | 1985 | final |
Towns with a flood study on file
Electoral Area E, Peace River is one of the 76% of towns in British Columbia with a flood study on file; across Canada it is 58%.
NRCan Canada Flood Map Inventory: a study footprint touching the town’s boundary; towns of 2,500 people or more.
Nothing here counts toward Risk; the studies are pointers to the maps their owners keep for Electoral Area E, Peace River.
The inventory’s own caution (NRCan): “The Canada Flood Map (CFM) does not include every flood hazard map in Canada and may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies. It should not be relied upon as the official source of flood mapping information. Furthermore, if a map appears to be missing, this does not necessarily mean that the area has never been mapped. For the official version of a map, updated information, or confirmation of applicable regulations, please contact the local authority responsible for flood mapping.”
Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory; links go to each study’s owner.
Expected shaking damage in Electoral Area E, Peace River: $0.018 a year per $1,000
NRCan’s seismic risk model: the damage shaking is expected to do to buildings each year, on average over many years.
Nothing unusual about Electoral Area E, Peace River’s ground: $0.018 against a typical $0.030, 0.6 times.
Shaking damage a year per $1,000 of building value
Below the middle in British Columbia: Electoral Area E, Peace River’s $0.018 against a median of $0.36; Duncan has $1.33.
NRCan seismic risk model (2022): mean yearly building loss per $1,000 of value; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
68% of Canada’s 2,611 towns expect more shaking damage than Electoral Area E, Peace River.
Each column: the share of Canada’s towns of 2,500 people or more in that range of yearly loss per $1,000 (NRCan, 2022).
What a quake does after the shaking, fire, landslides, tsunami, falls outside NRCan’s figure for Electoral Area E, Peace River.
Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model (2022), by census subdivision (2016 boundaries; a few 2021 subdivisions take their residents’ mean).
10% of homes tested around Electoral Area E, Peace River are over the radon guideline
Health Canada’s survey of long-term home tests: the share above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline.
At 10% over the guideline, the area around Electoral Area E, Peace River beats the typical Canadian town’s 6.6%.
Tested homes over 200 Bq/m³
Over 600 Bq/m³
Around Electoral Area E, Peace River, 10% of tests were over 200 Bq/m³ and 0.5% over 600, against a median of 1.8% in British Columbia.
Health Canada radon survey (2009–2011), by 2007 health region; medians of towns of 2,500 people or more.
Electoral Area E, Peace River is in the 10–20% band, with 22% of Canada’s 2,611 towns; only 4.6% are higher.
Each bar: the share of Canada’s towns of 2,500 people or more whose survey area had that share of tests over 200 Bq/m³.
Radon varies from house to house in Electoral Area E, Peace River, so the survey is a reason to test, not a result for yours.
Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011). · Radon tests: the Northeast health region
Where to get warnings in Electoral Area E, Peace River
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues the weather alerts for Electoral Area E, Peace River; Alert Ready carries the urgent ones to phones, radio and TV.
| Alert | What it means |
|---|---|
| Warning | Severe weather is happening or about to: act now. |
| Watch | Conditions favour severe weather: be ready. |
| Advisory | Weather that is less severe but could disrupt the day. |
| Special weather statement | Unusual weather worth knowing about. |
| Special air quality statement | Poor air, often wildfire smoke. |
For fires near Electoral Area E, Peace River, the national fire information system maps danger and active fires daily; local authorities give any evacuation order.
Weather alerts (ECCC) · Alert Ready · Fire danger and active fires (CWFIS)
Hazards in the places around Electoral Area E, Peace River
The same four hazards for the places next door.
| Town | Wildfire | Quake $/1,000 | Radon | Flood study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, Peace River | Low | $0.018 | 10% | Yes |
| Chetwynd 2,484 · 8.9 km | Moderate | $0.019 | 10% | None listed |
The heaviest fire record nearby is Chetwynd’s, moderate to Electoral Area E, Peace River’s low.
Radon is the survey area’s figure, so neighbours in one area share it.
Get ready for what Electoral Area E, Peace River faces
Practical steps for Electoral Area E, Peace River’s hazards, most pressing first.
- Test for three months in winter.
- Over 200 Bq/m³: fix it.
- Kits are cheap; pros test too.
- Never drive through floodwater.
- Move papers and medicines upstairs.
- Ask whether your street is mapped.
- Clear needles and wood nearby.
- Keep a grab-and-go bag ready.
- In smoke, stay in; filter air.
- Has it had a radon test?
- Check the address on the flood map.
- Are flood and wildfire insured?
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Flood studies aren’t flood zones. The flood inventory points to maps; it is incomplete and not the official source, so ask the municipality about any street in Electoral Area E, Peace River.
- Radon is a survey. Health Canada’s survey tested some 14,000 homes over three months; until postal-area boundaries are loaded, Electoral Area E, Peace River takes its 2007 health region’s share.
- Earthquakes are modelled. Seismic risk is NRCan’s model of yearly building losses from shaking, averaged over many years and given for Electoral Area E, Peace River’s census subdivision (a neighbourhood shows its city’s).
- Wildfire counts one way. For Electoral Area E, Peace River, wildfire means how much nearby land burned in the past forty years, a one-way input that can pull Risk down and nothing more.
Questions about flooding and hazards in Electoral Area E, Peace River
Is radon a problem in Electoral Area E, Peace River?
The area’s survey found 10% of 200 tested homes above Health Canada’s guideline, so a three-month test is worth doing in Electoral Area E, Peace River.
How is Electoral Area E, Peace River’s Hazard risk Grade worked out?
Electoral Area E, Peace River’s Hazard risk grade is B, built on earthquakes and radon with a one-sided wildfire input.
Is Electoral Area E, Peace River at risk of wildfire?
Some, but Electoral Area E, Peace River’s low band (1.5% of nearby land burned since 1986, latest 2025) is short of the level that counts.
How big is the earthquake risk in Electoral Area E, Peace River?
About $0.018 a year per $1,000 of building value, NRCan’s long-run expectation for Electoral Area E, Peace River.
Does Electoral Area E, Peace River flood?
The inventory lists a study touching Electoral Area E, Peace River; whether a given street floods is on that map, not in the grade.
Seismic risk: Natural Resources Canada. Radon: Health Canada. Wildfire: Canadian Wildland Fire Information System. Flood studies: Natural Resources Canada, Canada Flood Map Inventory. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Sources: NRCan, Canada’s Seismic Risk Model 2022 · Health Canada, Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes · CWFIS, National Burned Area Composite and FBP fuel types · NRCan, Canada Flood Map Inventory. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).